the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …

the Eurozone economies, the US, and developing Asia showing relatively weak home bias and advanced Asia, especially Japan … capital has been flowing from the US and the Eurozone economies to both advanced Asia (especially Japan) and developing Asia … and that foreign holdings of debt securities have been increasing in advanced as well as developing Asia but for different …

We study a firm that justifies its novel use of equity derivatives as a cash-flow hedging strategy. Our purpose is to … hedging concepts articulated by Froot, Scharfstein and Stein (1993). In applying the theory to practice, there are lessons for …